Russia announced yesterday that it will soon be able to produce hundreds of thousands of doses of the new vaccine against Corona virus (Covid-19) per month, and “many millions” at the beginning of next year, while the World Health Organization confirmed yesterday that there is hope for a vaccine Against the virus, she explained that the speed with which we reached this level in the search for a vaccine is unprecedented, and the organization urged all countries to strictly implement sanitary measures.
Statistics «Reuters» showed that more than 18.14 million people were infected with the disease, and 688 thousand and 80 people died of it, with the virus re-appearing in countries that it thought had surpassed the worst of the pandemic.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanum Gebresus, and the WHO's chief emergency expert, Mike Ryan, urged all countries to strictly implement health measures, such as masks, social spacing, hand-washing and checks.
"The message for people and governments is clear: stick to all (the measures)," Tidros said in an online press briefing from the organization's headquarters in Geneva.
He added that the masks should become a symbol of solidarity around the world.
He continued: «There are a number of vaccines in the third stage of clinical trials now, and we hope to have a number of effective vaccines that can protect people from infection. But there is no magic solution at the moment, and there may never be. ”
WHO officials indicated that a preparatory investigative team has not yet returned from China, where the virus originated. A larger team of Chinese and international experts is slated to be dispatched at the next stage to find out the origin of the virus in Wuhan, but the timing and composition of the virus have not been clarified yet.
Tedros urged mothers to continue breastfeeding, even if they contracted "Covid-19", because the benefits far outweigh the risks of infection.
He added that the Corona virus is the largest global health emergency since the early twentieth century, but the global search for an anti-virus vaccine is also historic.
He continued: «There are many vaccines under trial, and a number of them are in the last stage of clinical trials .. and there is hope. "This does not mean that we will have a vaccine, but the speed with which we have reached the level we have now reached in the search for a vaccine is unprecedented."
He added: «There are fears that there will be no vaccine that might work or perhaps provide protection for a few months, not more. But we will not know until we finish the clinical trials. ”
On his part, Ryan said that countries with increased rates of infection, such as Brazil and India, need to prepare for a major battle, adding, "The exit path is long and requires a sustained commitment."
In a related context, Russia confirmed, yesterday, that it will soon be able to produce hundreds of thousands of doses of the new vaccine against Corona virus every month, and "several million" at the beginning of next year.
Russian Trade Minister Denis Manturov stated that, as of next September, three biomedical companies will be able to produce a vaccine developed by the Nikolai Gamalia Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology in large quantities. "According to preliminary estimates, we will be able to provide hundreds of thousands of doses per month this year, then several million at the beginning of next year," he told Tass news agency.
Russia has been working for months, like many other countries in the world, to develop several experimental vaccines against the "Covid-19" epidemic, and the "Gamalia" vaccine was developed in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense.
The second vaccine is being developed at the Victor Research Center in Siberia, and the first doses are expected to be produced next October, according to the authorities.
Russia, the fourth country in the world in terms of the number of infections after the United States, Brazil and India, announced last April its desire to be among the first, if not the first, countries to develop a vaccine against the virus.
Researchers have expressed concern about the rapid development of Russian vaccines, and said that certain steps may be passed in order to speed up work under pressure from the authorities, and compared the race to reach a vaccine with the launch of the first Soviet satellite "Sputnik" into space in 1957.
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